Quotes about Emotional Resonance

Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your money at the radio while yelling, "I love you." I don't know what it is.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

arms stop me from crumpling like a rag doll. Sometimes you don't need to talk things out. Sometimes, with the right person, things just need some time to percolate on their own, without the messy lunge and parry of discussion to hinder them.

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.

If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.

It feels like every reference he makes, every little word, catapults me back there, to a place that doesn't really exist anymore.

Even personal complexes, i.e., semiconscious "split offs" which belong to the upper layers of the personal unconscious and are affectively charged and "feeling-toned," can evoke physical alterations in the circulatory system, in the respiration, blood pressure, and so on.

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

something in the world it's not expressed in words ----- just feel it ......

But he didn't seem to need her to finish her sentence as he said, "I know. When you kiss me, it's like that for me, too.

The truth was that if the man came with a harsh past and an emptiness in his soul, she was metal to his magnet.

Paul makes a noise—it's all he's got left, but I've taught myself to understand him and he wants me to keep reading. I tune out EastEnders and concentrate on Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett. It's his favourite and I could do most of it off by heart, except it makes me cry at the end because now I know what magic can really do and what it can't.

Tone doesn't demonstrably exist in composed notes. It exists only in played ones. It's the most human part of music, the carrier of emotion.

And, it helped that Anna was as warm and outgoing as I was shy and inward looking.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

It's not the words but the music that counts.

In 'Ta Chuma,' we used folk language so that the honesty reflected in it can live in people's hearts forever.

When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a mirror.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.

What your insides are doing, your outside reflects, and what you give to yourself, you can give to others.

I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.

Even if a song has shallow lyrics, there's something that you feel, regardless of what their lyrics are.

To me, the most emotional thing is to see regular people wearing our clothes. Yes, sometimes I see our clothes on somebody, and I think, 'No!', but you can't stop someone in the street and say, 'Please go home and change.'